LOGINLila, the frail and powerless daughter of the Alpha of Nightshade Pack, is relentlessly mocked and belittled by her pack. Her mate turned her away, deeming her weak and unworthy. Things take a darker turn when her father is killed by Alpha Vance, who seizes control of the pack. Desperate to protect both her life and her mother's, Lila makes the painful decision to become one of the concubines of the cruel and self-absorbed man who killed her father and is now her enemy.
View MoreCole's POV.The night bled red above the forest, the sky cracked open with the pulse of something ancient and furious.The scent of blood, ash, and fear hung thick in the air, clawing down my throat like smoke. Every heartbeat was a countdown, every breath a war drum.They’d taken her.The Bloodthorn elders had dared to take her.Lila.Her name tore through my mind like a blade, leaving behind the echo of her voice, her warmth, the last flicker of her eyes before they dragged her into the heart of the cursed woods. My wolf howled inside me — wild, relentless — but the forest swallowed the sound whole.The Bloodthorn Pack had always been shadows and whispers, but now they were real, rising from the bones of old kingdoms, twisting the curse that had nearly killed me into a weapon of their own. And she — my mate, my forbidden light — was their key.I could still smell her blood on the wind, faint but enough. It drove me forw
Cole’s POV The forest was dying. Every tree groaned like a wounded beast, their roots tearing from the earth as the curse spread through the soil in veins of silver light. The air burned cold — not the kind that bit the skin, but the kind that devoured it. Cole Bennett ran through it anyway. Branches whipped across his arms, slicing through the fabric of his shirt, but he barely felt them. His lungs ached, his legs screamed, his fever burned like fire under his skin — but he didn’t stop. He couldn’t. He could still smell her. Lila. Her scent — wildflowers and rain — drifted faintly through the chaos, and it was the only thing that kept him sane. She was here, somewhere inside this rotting heart of Nightshade. “Hold on, Lila,” he growled, pushing harder. The forest shifted around him like a living thing, trees twisting into monstrous shapes, roots curling to block his path. He swung his blade in wide, brutal arcs, cutting through the growth, silver sparks flying with e
Lila’s POVWhen the darkness took me, it did not feel like dying.It felt like remembering.The world that unfolded around me was not the forest I’d fallen into, nor the clearing where Cole had called my name. This place was something older — carved out of silence and sorrow, a realm where time did not dare move forward. The ground shimmered like black glass, and above it hung a moon the color of bone, cracked and bleeding faint silver tears.My breath misted in the air, though I wasn’t sure if I was breathing at all. The curse hummed beneath my skin, alive, whispering to me in a thousand voices that were somehow all my own.Welcome home, it said.I turned slowly, my reflection rippling in the glass beneath my feet. But it wasn’t just me staring back. Her — the woman I’d seen in flashes and dreams. The one whose blood birthed this curse centuries ago. Pale hair drifting like smoke, eyes the same molten silver that now haunte
The moon hung blood-red over the Nightshade borderlands, its light veiled in clouds that swirled like ash and smoke. Cole Bennett had ridden through three territories without rest. His wolf was exhausted, his body burning with fever, but his will was unyielding. The mark of the curse, a jagged black vein stretching from his collarbone down his chest, pulsed with each heartbeat.He hadn’t told anyone that it had begun to spread to him. Not even Lila. Especially not Lila.Every second counted now.Cole urged his steed forward, galloping into the howling woods where legend said the Moon Healer once lived—an ancient witch who had cured kings and damned beasts alike. But the path was treacherous. The deeper he went, the thicker the mist became, until the world was nothing but silver fog and the echo of his own ragged breathing.“Hold on, Lila,” he muttered, his voice hoarse. “Just hold on for me.”The memory of her last look haunted
The forest no longer sounded like a forest.It breathed.Every tree seemed alive, every gust of wind carried whispers that spoke his name. Cole stumbled through the mist, his heartbeat uneven, his claws half drawn as the fever pulsed beneath his skin. The curse hadn’t killed him yet—but it was feeding.“Lila!” he called into the haze, his voice low, rough, almost human again. The echo bounced off the roots and stones, coming back to him broken.Silence.Then a faint hum—soft, distant, and unmistakably hers.He followed it.The fog clung to his boots, curling around his legs like hands trying to pull him down. He forced himself forward, one breath at a time, one heartbeat at a time. The scent of her still lingered—faint jasmine, cold rain, and something new beneath it: frost and moonlight, the scent of the curse.He hated it. And yet, he couldn’t stop chasing it.Each step took him deeper into what remained of the Nightshade woods. The sky above had turned to silver-gray; no sun, no mo
Lila's POV The first thing I remember is the cold.It wasn’t the kind that prickled the skin—it was deeper, an ache that crawled into the marrow, whispering that warmth was a memory. My eyes fluttered open to darkness. Not the kind that comes with night, but something older, thicker—alive. The air shimmered with it, pulsing faintly, as though it breathed with me.For a long moment, I didn’t know who I was.My name hovered on the edge of consciousness, a taste I couldn’t quite recall. Lila… The sound of it echoed faintly in the back of my mind, but it felt borrowed, as though it belonged to someone else entirely.Then I heard him.“Little wolf,” a voice murmured through the dark, smooth as velvet and edged with danger. “You wander too far into my hollow again.”I spun around, my heart hammering—but there was no one there. Only the sound of my own frantic breathing and the whisper of unseen winds. My body t






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